Village Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Pound.
Village Pound
- WRENN ID
- veiled-pier-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Pound
- Address
- Village Pound, Shop Lane, Langton Herring
- OS grid reference
- SY 614 825
- Coordinates
- 50.6412, -2.54586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Pound is an 18th-century structure located on Shop Lane in Langton Herring. It features stone walls measuring approximately 6 metres by 6 metres and standing about 2 metres high. The walls are made of shallow rubble stone and topped with vertical coping stones. There is an entrance on the left side, marked by two square wooden gate-posts, although there is no gate present. The pound is of historic interest.
Local climate
Village Pound receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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